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A. P. TEEVIN DISK WHEEL Oct. 23, 1923. 1,471,812

Filed April 18. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Snow L101 fl-J reel/111v.

Oct. 23, 1923. 1,411,812

A. P. TEEVIN DISK WHEEL Filed April 18. 1922 I 2 Sl'ieets-Shnot 2 Patented Oct. 23, 1923.

ANDREW PATRICK TEEVIN, 011 DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

DISK WHEEL.

Application filed April 18, 1922.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Annnnw P. TnnvIN, citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Disk Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved disk vheel for motor vehicles and seeks, as one oi. its principal objects, to provide a wheel which may be employed in conjunction with conventional wheel hubs.

A further object 01": the invention is to provide a wheel which may be readily attached and which, in practical use, will function with entire eh'iciency.

fund the invention has as a still further object to provide a wheel wherein one of the disks may be removed to permit easy and quick removal or replacement of a tire carried by the wheel.

Other and incidental objects will appear hereinafter.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved wheel, the hub cap employed being removed and the wheel being shown in connection with a conventional wheel hub,

Figure 2 is a sectional. view on the line 2 2 oi? l igure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, and

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view showing the latch for the clamping ring of the wheel.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, I employ a hub ring provided at its outer side with an annular flange 1.1 in the outer periphery of wh ch is formed a plurality of circuni'lerentially spaced notches or sockets 12. Mounted upon the ring at its inner side is a dished inner disk 1?} provided centrally with. an opening somewhat larger than the opening through the ring 10 and extending through the inner margin of the disk is a plurality of cap bolts 14 securing the disk upon the ring. The disk is preferably formed of suitable resilient sheet metal bent into overlapping relation to provide an annular rim section 1.5, the outer thickness oi which is continued to form an annular side flange 16 at the periphery of. the disk. As shown in Figure 2, the rim section is formed with an opening 17 to accommodate the valve of a tire. Mounted upon the rim section. 15 at its inner side is a plurality of circumferem Serial No. 554,894.

tially spaced blocks 19. These blocks are preferably three in number and threaded into said blocks are stud bolts 20 projecting laterally at the free side edge of the rim section.

Detachably connected to the hub ring 10 at its outer side is a dished outer disk 21 formed centrally with an opening to freely accommodate the flange 11 of said ring so that the disk may be readily fitted thereover to seat flat against the ring, the disks 13 and 21 being dished inwardly toward each other. The disk 21, like the disk 13, is preferably formed from suitable resilient sheet metal bent into overlapping relation to provide a relatively narrow rim section 22 snugly surrounding the free margin of the rim section 15 mating therewith while the outer thickness of the rim section 22 is continued to form an annular side flange 23 the peripliery of the disk. The flange 23 is the counterpart of the flange 16 of the disk 13 and said flanges are designed to accommodate ademountable rim therebetween, as conventionally shown at 24, the rim restin at one margin upon the rim section 1.5 and at its opposite margin upon the rim section 22. The rim 24 is shown as equipped with a conventional tire 25 in which is ar ranged an inner tube 26 having a valve 27 extending freely through the opening 17 in the rim section 15 of the wheel and formed in said rim section at any approved point is an opening 28 to accommodate the usual lug 29 upon the rim 24: for locking the rim against creeping. Formed through the disk 21 are openings to freely accommodate the studs 20 and threaded upon said studs are clamping nuts 30 seci'iring the disk adjacent its periphery. Threaded upon the flange 11 of the hub ring 10 is a clamping ring 31 securing the disk upon the hub ring. The ring 31 is provided with sockets to ac commodate a spanner wrench. and pivoted upon said ring is, as shown in detail in Figure 3, a spring pressed latch 32 engageable in the sockets 12 of the flange 11 selectively for locking the clamping ring against retrograde movement.

As previously intimated, the present wheel is particularly designed for use in connection with conventional motor vehicle wheel hubs and in the drawings, 1 have shown such a hub at 33. At its inner end, this hub is provided with the usual radial flange 34 and formed. to it over the outer til) hub.

end oi the hub is the cus A conver ion t ijis drum sea of the sub its 1 served, t e l i v 'lorined to sniuglg. eati n agair st said flung; ie, the cen tral ope hip; in ot the Wheel being of e ate said flange, oil

t the ester side ameter to accontunod s Within said tlenge the ring 10 and eiz'tendin l0 and through tl.

the drum 36,

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may be readily me 1 [rs is usual,

on is e closure cap 38 Cllbl .i rlphery to seat the outer edg ii at the hub ring:

Detuchabi mountd ipon 2'? lts free end an elbow air no to to e pl5 hose of the nipp e. To remove th the tire thereon, the nuts 3 20 are first taken off, rile; 81 then displace removed. The outer 6 then be easily sl pped lease the rim. Accoi ,.;l v, the rim and tire may be arranged upon the wheel or displsced therefrom with minimum of: di'lliculty.

Having thuse described the invention, What is claimed as new is:

l. A Wheel for attachment to a hub including: a hub ring formed to RCLfm'fl-O- date the hub and provide 7, at its outer side With a flange companion Wheel disks n: i: ring, t sitid freely surrounding said :i' upon the flange detechably loosing; upon the hub ring.

2. A Wheel to attachment to a wheel hub including a hub ring termed to :LCCODUiMr date the hub and provided at its outer side with a flange, companion Wheel. mounted upon the ring, one of said disks :treely surrounding said flange, clumping ring threaded upon said flange locking said disl: upon the hub ring, and means carried by the clamping to coect with disks With said first mentioned lie e, our ad by S"1Cl first n1 MAO/I1? run section pro ecting through th letter dish, means arried by E- iCl studs seeming the latter disk adjacent its periphery, and means carried by the hub r? i to coact with the letter disk centrally thereof clamping the letter dish upon the A Wheel including a hub ring formed to accommodate :1 hub and l d 'ts outer side with a flange, comp ,el disks mounted upon the rin d disks freelv surrounding s a clamping threaded up) c t'i.J,.'6 locking said disk upon the ring, and a lute coscting etween the c limping ring and flange locking the clrunping- "in-g against retrograde movement.

5. i wheel including a hut to accommodate a. hub proieit' the ring and provided at its outer side m e companion Wheel disks mounted upon the ring, one of said c is freely sun rounding; said flange, means he flan detachably locking seid dis ring, and acap engraving end of the hub coope sting 6. A Wheel including at hub o u t of: uflu one. immm to accommodate a hub and provided at its 2 ll un outer side with a flange, a \vhoe 'sl: senting against the inner sue o secured thereto, a i 1 the outer side of the ring surroundingsaid fange, and means upon the things detachebly locking the latter dist: upon the iub ring.

7. ihe combination with a vheol hut hav ing a flange, of u hub ring oi' single thick ness surrounding the hub abutting said flange, means extend ng through the ring}; and the flange securing the :ing upon the hub, a Wheel oislc mounted upon the ring at its inner side, means connecting s'iid dish with the ring independently of mid first mentioned means, e companion Wheel disk mounted upon ring at its outer side, and means detachably locking the letter dish upon the hub ring.

in testimony whereof on i u 1' iii; my signature.

HEBREW EA'ERECK TEEVEN. [L s] 

